Learning Difficulties and Use of Visual Technologies in Learning to Program

Mehmet Fatih YİĞİT; Mustafa BAŞER

doi:https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.2.4

Makale detayları

Learning Difficulties and Use of Visual Technologies in Learning to Program

Yazarlar:

Mehmet Fatih YİĞİT | Mustafa BAŞER

Yayıncı:

Özgen KORKMAZ

Ana Başlıklar:

Eğitim

Dergi:

Participatory Educational Research 2015 Vol.2 Issue 5, pp.27-34

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

11/2015

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000773599

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

pISSN:

2148-6123

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.2.4

Özet:

 

In recent years, programming has been seen as a promising career with great earning potential. Rapid growth and use of computer technology give further emphasis to programming. Therefore, faculties open programming courses ranging from introductory to advanced levels. Primary and secondary schools also started to include programming courses in their curriculum. However, in the literature, it has been widely accepted that learning to program is a challenging task for students. Studies conducted on programming education show that significant number of students fail the programming course or get low grades. Of the reasons why students have problems in programming, necessity to possess variety of knowledge while dealing with the programming exercises is mentioned most in the research. These are syntactic, conceptual and strategic knowledge. Other reasons involve lack of motivation, lack of skills required for the programming, lack of mathematical knowledge and unfamiliarity with the programming courses. This is a literature review study that discusses learning difficulties of students and visual technologies used in programming courses to overcome problems mentioned above. This study examines technologies such as Scratch, Alice, Blockly, Jeliot and Ville. The properties of these technologies, how they can be used in programming and results of research studying the effectiveness of these technologies are also discussed.

Makale detayları

Learning Difficulties and Use of Visual Technologies in Learning to Program

Yazarlar: Mehmet Fatih YİĞİT | Mustafa BAŞER

Yayıncı: Özgen KORKMAZ

Ana Başlıklar: Eğitim

Dergi: Participatory Educational Research 2015 Vol.2 Issue 5, pp.27-34

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 11/2015

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000773599

Sıklık: İki Aylık

pISSN: 2148-6123

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.2.4

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Mehmet Fatih YİĞİT | Mustafa BAŞER

Yayıncı:

Özgen KORKMAZ

Ana Başlıklar:

Eğitim

Dergi:

Participatory Educational Research 2015 Vol.2 Issue 5, pp.27-34

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

11/2015

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000773599

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

pISSN:

2148-6123

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.2.4